There is a beautiful legend told about a little girl who
was the first-born of a family in Egypt, when the destroying angel swept through
that land, and consequently who would have been a victim on that night if the
protecting blood were not sprinkled on the doorposts of her father's house. The
order was that the first-born should be struck by death all through Egypt. This
little girl was sick, and she knew that death would take her, and she might be a
victim of the order. She asked her father if the blood was sprinkled on the
door-posts. He said it was, that he had ordered it to be done. She asked him if
he had seen it there. He said no, but he had no doubt that it was done. He had
seen the lamb killed, and had told the servant to attend to it. But she was not
satisfied, and asked her father to go and see, and urged him to take her in his
arms and carry her to the door to see. They found that the servant had neglected
to put the blood upon the posts. There the child was exposed to death until they
found the blood and sprinkled it on the posts, and then it was safe. See to it
that you are safe in Christ.